just a quick blog to say that i am now free of uni for this year... and i need to blog about:
-studying with Cler, Rob, Steve and Sam
-the drama of my last assignment
-back 2 basics youth event thing
-elsie's brunch
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
i am alive
please forgive me for neglecting you - my beautiful blog. I do still love you. Although I didn't realise that I still loved you. It was only until I commented back on my post 2 posts ago that my excitement of blogging and it's usefulness in procrastination was revitalised in my mind. Oh and I can write really long sentences which make no sense to anyone but me and my blog will love me for it. oh what a wonderful blog.
so....
yesterday was my last day at uni for the year! (officially... I still have to trek in next friday to hand in an assignment). So I can waste time now! or maybe not quite yet. Gotta write this essay first... but then it'll be holidays. YAY!!! Here are my holiday plans:
-make a bag
-make a dress/skirt
-finish reading "disciplines of a godly woman"
-finish reading "nothing in my hand I bring"
-read either "knowing God" or "decision making and the will of God" (or both... depending on how reading excited I get)
-finish reading my "Bible in a year" (which I was supposed to finish last year... I'm halfway through december at the moment)
-hang out with Rob
-get into a good sleep pattern
-clean my room
-get a filing cabinet for my bountiful amounts of teaching resources
-cut pizzas
-drink tea
-have a bbq
-meet with friends
-go away with friends
-go away with family
-blog about everything
So there you have it.... my "Holiday Blogging" series. Hope you will get excited about it.
I'll also be going to Bourke for this school visit thing.. so I should blog about that too. And there is also NTE (definitely blog-worthy).
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p.s: Elsie... this blog was for you :)
so....
yesterday was my last day at uni for the year! (officially... I still have to trek in next friday to hand in an assignment). So I can waste time now! or maybe not quite yet. Gotta write this essay first... but then it'll be holidays. YAY!!! Here are my holiday plans:
-make a bag
-make a dress/skirt
-finish reading "disciplines of a godly woman"
-finish reading "nothing in my hand I bring"
-read either "knowing God" or "decision making and the will of God" (or both... depending on how reading excited I get)
-finish reading my "Bible in a year" (which I was supposed to finish last year... I'm halfway through december at the moment)
-hang out with Rob
-get into a good sleep pattern
-clean my room
-get a filing cabinet for my bountiful amounts of teaching resources
-cut pizzas
-drink tea
-have a bbq
-meet with friends
-go away with friends
-go away with family
-blog about everything
So there you have it.... my "Holiday Blogging" series. Hope you will get excited about it.
I'll also be going to Bourke for this school visit thing.. so I should blog about that too. And there is also NTE (definitely blog-worthy).
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p.s: Elsie... this blog was for you :)
Monday, September 24, 2007
Hello!
I haven't blogged in a long long time (although the last time I blogged... it was a very very long blog)
This session at uni, me and Elsie have been reading Ecclesiastes together and finding that the writer is particularly depressed. Reading one chapter a fortnight has made me question if the writer should just get over himself and start looking at the positive. Yesterday at church we had a sermon on Ecclesiastes. We saw that the writer is just giving a true depiction of the world. We live in a fallen world and it isn't that nice. We then came to realise that we seem to have very high expectations of the world. We always want to gain more from it, we want excitement and new things... yet the world we live in can get quite monotonous - we wake up, go to uni, come home, sleep, wake up, go to uni, come home, sleep, etc. Turning to Romans 8:18-21, we are reminded that God has subjected us to this world, so that we have reason to hope for something better. A time when we can be with God forever. It's exciting to know that we can be in relationship with God and that he is preparing a place for us.
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Google Maps - UNSW
Have any of you seen google maps lately? It's pretty good... and you can get good directions too... it shows you pictures of the streets and all that jazz.
In my procrastination... I looked up UNSW. Take a look at this pic:
Can anyone explain what the huge black wall is???
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In my procrastination... I looked up UNSW. Take a look at this pic:
Can anyone explain what the huge black wall is???From Car-O-Line
Friday, August 10, 2007
an update!!!
so... what's been going on since my last blog? So much!!!
switch camp:
For switch camp Doug came and spoke to us about Thomas (from the book of John) and what we could learn from him. We talked a lot about the different reactions that people have when they experience Jesus. A lot of the kids were struck by the fact that it's easy to say you follow Jesus, but harder to actually follow him. We're all keeping each other accountable now. We also had fun games and good music.
uni holidays:
before and after switch camp (although not during camp) I was sick. One week of a terrible sore throat (I suspect aa UPTI) and then a week of a flu.
Bob and Nicole's wedding:
Bob and Nicole got married on the 7/7/7. I drove Daniella, Veronica and Simon from my place to Engadine... it was a very long, fun, interesting and revealing trip.
Twin Cellos:
Me and Veronica went to the City Recital hall on the 13/7/7 to see the twin cellists play. They were really good. They played 4 different pieces, my favourite was the Rachmaninov cello sonata (solo cello) and the Elena Kats Chernin - "Phoenix Story."
Rice Planning:
there have been 2 planning days so far. I'm going to be on admin team and post-rally team. It's kinda a scary experience. So much planning and so much organising to be done. Everyone is praying that the BDO (which is tomorrow) wont be rained out.
MYC!!!
Definitely the highlight of my holidays. The topic for this year was "guidance" and grimmo gave some awesome talks. I actually went up to MYC the day before (for pre-myc) which was nice. We got everything organised and prayed and thought about how we can be looking out for those who might be anxious about myc. I had awesome room buddies for myc. In my room was Verity, Erin, Jess O, Carlie, Naomi and Anne. We all got along very well and had fun.
highlights of the week:
-seeing naomi come to myc!!!
-meeting all the first year arts (and the other arts people who I've never met before)
-free time - our girl/gui-dance - this was so funny! we basically all got together at free time and freestyled until we worked out some dance moves that we liked. Everyone in the arts faculty took part which was awesome. And there was an inter-faculty competition... and arts won!!! We are the best faculty ever!!!
-D&M's with erin, verity and naomi
-mafia in the prayer tower - we cramped in 11 people into one of those tiny rooms!
Things I learned from the talks:
-one thing that I never really thought about much before was that God is the one who made the world futile. This sorta shocked me at first but it's a really awesome that he did it... in fact it was an act of mercy!!!
-the only guidance we need is guidance on how to be married to Christ. And God has given us all the guidance that we need now.
Pizza at Alistair's:
Alistair makes really nice pizza... and really nice ice cream.... drool! We watched "The Devil Wears Prada." A movie that has always confused me... is it a happy or sad ending???
Anna's 21st/farewell:
straight after work I drove to Anna's party. It was a good party. The theme was "any wee thing Scottish" so I wore a wee bit of Scottish tartan (in the form of my red scarf :P). There were some really awesome speeches... like there was this whole presentation with audience participation. And there was dancing. There was a jukebox so we got to choose some songs. We all had a fun time dancing. It was kinda scary seeing people like Lindsay know all the lyrics to spice girls songs. Oh and Warren and Dan blue-zinc-ed half of their faces braveheart style... and at the end they were rubbing it on everyone. Very funny.
Parent's holiday:
after getting home from anna's and sleeping at 1am... I had to wake up at 4am to go to the airport with parents... then drive myself home at 5:30am. Needless to say I was tired. Parents went up to sunny townsville for a holiday without me... but that was ok. Cler came over a few times and we watched a stack of movies (including Harry Potter... before I finished reading the book).
Back to uni:
First day back at uni was really awesome. I was wearing my mission hoodie from myc... and I saw all these people I met at myc wearing their hoodies too. I even had some of my friends asking me what it was all about which was cool... although that was the only time they asked about it (after quickly realising that it was a christian thing). We also had our first prof prac class with Christine Logan. She's really encouraging and eases your nervousness. She talked a lot about our recitals... I'm excited about mine now.
post-Choir fun:
Me, Naomi and Erin are at it again. The first choir night back we went to the spot for pizza and then saw harry potter (again) with Dan W, Lindsay, Warren and Dave. Watching it again lets you pick up on things you missed the first time. I slept over at naomi's house that night (didn't have to go home because parents weren't home) and we stayed up talking and chatting with erin on msn.
chai chai time:
is sorta happening... something that I'm finding really sucky this session is that I have class after cbs on both monday and thursday... so I can't really hang around and talk to people. As soon as me and naomi finish class... we rush to chai chai to see if people are still there.
arts hang:
is happening a bit more than chai chai time. The only thing about arts hang time at the moment is that people keep on going to the wrong location lol. I've got some good feelings about arts hang though... I'm sure it'll work out soon enough.
prof prac preliminary:
played half of one of my recital pieces in class. first time my class mates have seen me so "angry" (ie: focused and serious). It was sorta fun playing for them... I must admit it was a pretty unpolished performance but that's ok... I like the piece and it should be good for recital time :)
other uni classes:
there is so much reading it's unbelievable!!! I've never had to read so much a week ever!!! And I don't like it! The thing is... our readings get checked... so I have to do the readings!!! GAH!
21st party research:
planning a 21st is the most difficult and confusing thing I've ever done (not really but I feel like exaggerating). I think I've finally got a place and a date that will be good-ish. Too many people are having their 21st in september which makes it hard.
Blood of Kings:
After choir I met up with Alistair and watched this play called "Blood of Kings" which was written by Alistair's, brother's girlfriend. It was a really good play! So cool that she (Clairie Ormiston) could write something like that. From what I gathered... it's a play about the tension between truth and thought.
CBS mission talk:
The 'first' mission talk was entitled "Why do Camels have more hope than Bill Gates." Chales Gajus gave the talk... and it was really good. I brought one of my class mates along and introed him to an arts guy so that they could talk. The talk was about "who can get into heaven." Talk about tough answers!!!
and there it is... my life so far :P
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switch camp:
For switch camp Doug came and spoke to us about Thomas (from the book of John) and what we could learn from him. We talked a lot about the different reactions that people have when they experience Jesus. A lot of the kids were struck by the fact that it's easy to say you follow Jesus, but harder to actually follow him. We're all keeping each other accountable now. We also had fun games and good music.
uni holidays:
before and after switch camp (although not during camp) I was sick. One week of a terrible sore throat (I suspect aa UPTI) and then a week of a flu.
Bob and Nicole's wedding:
Bob and Nicole got married on the 7/7/7. I drove Daniella, Veronica and Simon from my place to Engadine... it was a very long, fun, interesting and revealing trip.
Twin Cellos:
Me and Veronica went to the City Recital hall on the 13/7/7 to see the twin cellists play. They were really good. They played 4 different pieces, my favourite was the Rachmaninov cello sonata (solo cello) and the Elena Kats Chernin - "Phoenix Story."
Rice Planning:
there have been 2 planning days so far. I'm going to be on admin team and post-rally team. It's kinda a scary experience. So much planning and so much organising to be done. Everyone is praying that the BDO (which is tomorrow) wont be rained out.
MYC!!!
Definitely the highlight of my holidays. The topic for this year was "guidance" and grimmo gave some awesome talks. I actually went up to MYC the day before (for pre-myc) which was nice. We got everything organised and prayed and thought about how we can be looking out for those who might be anxious about myc. I had awesome room buddies for myc. In my room was Verity, Erin, Jess O, Carlie, Naomi and Anne. We all got along very well and had fun.
highlights of the week:
-seeing naomi come to myc!!!
-meeting all the first year arts (and the other arts people who I've never met before)
-free time - our girl/gui-dance - this was so funny! we basically all got together at free time and freestyled until we worked out some dance moves that we liked. Everyone in the arts faculty took part which was awesome. And there was an inter-faculty competition... and arts won!!! We are the best faculty ever!!!
-D&M's with erin, verity and naomi
-mafia in the prayer tower - we cramped in 11 people into one of those tiny rooms!
Things I learned from the talks:
-one thing that I never really thought about much before was that God is the one who made the world futile. This sorta shocked me at first but it's a really awesome that he did it... in fact it was an act of mercy!!!
-the only guidance we need is guidance on how to be married to Christ. And God has given us all the guidance that we need now.
Pizza at Alistair's:
Alistair makes really nice pizza... and really nice ice cream.... drool! We watched "The Devil Wears Prada." A movie that has always confused me... is it a happy or sad ending???
Anna's 21st/farewell:
straight after work I drove to Anna's party. It was a good party. The theme was "any wee thing Scottish" so I wore a wee bit of Scottish tartan (in the form of my red scarf :P). There were some really awesome speeches... like there was this whole presentation with audience participation. And there was dancing. There was a jukebox so we got to choose some songs. We all had a fun time dancing. It was kinda scary seeing people like Lindsay know all the lyrics to spice girls songs. Oh and Warren and Dan blue-zinc-ed half of their faces braveheart style... and at the end they were rubbing it on everyone. Very funny.
Parent's holiday:
after getting home from anna's and sleeping at 1am... I had to wake up at 4am to go to the airport with parents... then drive myself home at 5:30am. Needless to say I was tired. Parents went up to sunny townsville for a holiday without me... but that was ok. Cler came over a few times and we watched a stack of movies (including Harry Potter... before I finished reading the book).
Back to uni:
First day back at uni was really awesome. I was wearing my mission hoodie from myc... and I saw all these people I met at myc wearing their hoodies too. I even had some of my friends asking me what it was all about which was cool... although that was the only time they asked about it (after quickly realising that it was a christian thing). We also had our first prof prac class with Christine Logan. She's really encouraging and eases your nervousness. She talked a lot about our recitals... I'm excited about mine now.
post-Choir fun:
Me, Naomi and Erin are at it again. The first choir night back we went to the spot for pizza and then saw harry potter (again) with Dan W, Lindsay, Warren and Dave. Watching it again lets you pick up on things you missed the first time. I slept over at naomi's house that night (didn't have to go home because parents weren't home) and we stayed up talking and chatting with erin on msn.
chai chai time:
is sorta happening... something that I'm finding really sucky this session is that I have class after cbs on both monday and thursday... so I can't really hang around and talk to people. As soon as me and naomi finish class... we rush to chai chai to see if people are still there.
arts hang:
is happening a bit more than chai chai time. The only thing about arts hang time at the moment is that people keep on going to the wrong location lol. I've got some good feelings about arts hang though... I'm sure it'll work out soon enough.
prof prac preliminary:
played half of one of my recital pieces in class. first time my class mates have seen me so "angry" (ie: focused and serious). It was sorta fun playing for them... I must admit it was a pretty unpolished performance but that's ok... I like the piece and it should be good for recital time :)
other uni classes:
there is so much reading it's unbelievable!!! I've never had to read so much a week ever!!! And I don't like it! The thing is... our readings get checked... so I have to do the readings!!! GAH!
21st party research:
planning a 21st is the most difficult and confusing thing I've ever done (not really but I feel like exaggerating). I think I've finally got a place and a date that will be good-ish. Too many people are having their 21st in september which makes it hard.
Blood of Kings:
After choir I met up with Alistair and watched this play called "Blood of Kings" which was written by Alistair's, brother's girlfriend. It was a really good play! So cool that she (Clairie Ormiston) could write something like that. From what I gathered... it's a play about the tension between truth and thought.
CBS mission talk:
The 'first' mission talk was entitled "Why do Camels have more hope than Bill Gates." Chales Gajus gave the talk... and it was really good. I brought one of my class mates along and introed him to an arts guy so that they could talk. The talk was about "who can get into heaven." Talk about tough answers!!!
and there it is... my life so far :P
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
shocking news
I am in shock!
So.... I've been trying very hard to read Harry Potter 5 before the movie comes out... I get up to chapter 27.... turn the page... and find out that I'm rereading something from chapter 11! So... I wonder if this is some sorta weird trick JKR has done to give the illusion of real 'magic' but it's a printing error!!! Pages 529-576 has been replaced by a repeat of pages 193-240. HOW BAD IS THAT!!! You'd think there would be some sort of quality control or something. So yes... I've got a bad feeling I wont be able to exchange the book because I bought it in Feburary... but I'll give it a go. In the meantime... I can't read on... and it was getting mildly exciting. Has this ever happened to someone before?
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p.s: if someone wants to lend me a book so I can read pp529-576 that would be cool
So.... I've been trying very hard to read Harry Potter 5 before the movie comes out... I get up to chapter 27.... turn the page... and find out that I'm rereading something from chapter 11! So... I wonder if this is some sorta weird trick JKR has done to give the illusion of real 'magic' but it's a printing error!!! Pages 529-576 has been replaced by a repeat of pages 193-240. HOW BAD IS THAT!!! You'd think there would be some sort of quality control or something. So yes... I've got a bad feeling I wont be able to exchange the book because I bought it in Feburary... but I'll give it a go. In the meantime... I can't read on... and it was getting mildly exciting. Has this ever happened to someone before?
From Car-O-Line
p.s: if someone wants to lend me a book so I can read pp529-576 that would be cool
Thursday, June 28, 2007
man talk
I have a soft toy sore throat:
I also have a very real sore throat... and I sound like a man. I can sing a D below middle C to be precise. It's very troubling... but I'm trying to remain calm because I know the cause of this sore throat was stress in the first place.
And funnily enough I didn't get my sore throat from screaming at misbehaved boys on prac. In fact... prac was awesome. The boys were all very obedient and I had a good time teaching them. I went back on tuesday night to help mark their trial HSC performances and I had a good time. They are all very talented musically. I'm going to miss going there every day... I also felt like I bonded really well with the teachers there. I'm gonna go to the 'evening of music' to catch up and see how everything is going.
On the other hand... switch camp is stressing me out like there is no tomorrow! I fully had a breakdown last night. Mum says that I'm taking it all a bit too seriously... and I am. I thought it would be easier this year because I had done it last year... but it's been so much more hectic this year. I've been reminded that I can't just rely on my own efforts but that I really need to rely on God.
In more exciting (and cute) news. I bought three watermelon slices which can be seen here. They are going to be my future inspiration for making cute toys. In fact I would have already started my craft escapades if it wasn't for my stupid sickness which is keeping me stuck in this dreary house.
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I also have a very real sore throat... and I sound like a man. I can sing a D below middle C to be precise. It's very troubling... but I'm trying to remain calm because I know the cause of this sore throat was stress in the first place.And funnily enough I didn't get my sore throat from screaming at misbehaved boys on prac. In fact... prac was awesome. The boys were all very obedient and I had a good time teaching them. I went back on tuesday night to help mark their trial HSC performances and I had a good time. They are all very talented musically. I'm going to miss going there every day... I also felt like I bonded really well with the teachers there. I'm gonna go to the 'evening of music' to catch up and see how everything is going.
On the other hand... switch camp is stressing me out like there is no tomorrow! I fully had a breakdown last night. Mum says that I'm taking it all a bit too seriously... and I am. I thought it would be easier this year because I had done it last year... but it's been so much more hectic this year. I've been reminded that I can't just rely on my own efforts but that I really need to rely on God.
In more exciting (and cute) news. I bought three watermelon slices which can be seen here. They are going to be my future inspiration for making cute toys. In fact I would have already started my craft escapades if it wasn't for my stupid sickness which is keeping me stuck in this dreary house.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Uni over!!!
I have no more uni work to do, except for one assignment - which I'm not counting as an assignment because I'm looking forward to doing it - it's fun (it's an orchestral arrangement).
[while typing the above... I accidentally swallowed a spearmint eclipse mint. Should I take another one???]
Tomorrow I start on prac. So I wont be at uni for a long time. It's kinda sad that I'll be missing the last week of uni. I feel like I haven't said a proper goodbye to my uni friends. Luckily for me I'll see most of them not too far away at MYC!!! I'm super excited about MYC. I'm feeling the need for a bit of guidance... especially since Elsie gave me a 5 year plan to write up.
Anyways... back to prac. I visited the school and now I'm really excited about teaching there. It's a boys school so I'm sure many weird and funny things will happen and that I'll learn a lot of stuff. The music teachers there are very nice. Friendly too. [hmmm... does nice assume friendly???]
I'm excited about the holidays... I'm going to go craft crazy! I have patterns printed out already... just need to get fabric. I'm going to make lots of cushions and plus toys. I've talked about my germs before... I want to make things like my germs... but maybe I'll make animals. You have to check out this cool site... so cute!!! (to see more go here)
Well... gives you enough stuff to browse over and comment about. I'll end here [p.s: I did decide to have another mint]
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[don't worry Doug... my games blog is coming!!! - you may have to keep on bugging me though]
[while typing the above... I accidentally swallowed a spearmint eclipse mint. Should I take another one???]
Tomorrow I start on prac. So I wont be at uni for a long time. It's kinda sad that I'll be missing the last week of uni. I feel like I haven't said a proper goodbye to my uni friends. Luckily for me I'll see most of them not too far away at MYC!!! I'm super excited about MYC. I'm feeling the need for a bit of guidance... especially since Elsie gave me a 5 year plan to write up.
Anyways... back to prac. I visited the school and now I'm really excited about teaching there. It's a boys school so I'm sure many weird and funny things will happen and that I'll learn a lot of stuff. The music teachers there are very nice. Friendly too. [hmmm... does nice assume friendly???]
I'm excited about the holidays... I'm going to go craft crazy! I have patterns printed out already... just need to get fabric. I'm going to make lots of cushions and plus toys. I've talked about my germs before... I want to make things like my germs... but maybe I'll make animals. You have to check out this cool site... so cute!!! (to see more go here)
Well... gives you enough stuff to browse over and comment about. I'll end here [p.s: I did decide to have another mint]
From Car-O-Line
[don't worry Doug... my games blog is coming!!! - you may have to keep on bugging me though]
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